The Basic Income Grant (BIG) Coalition of Namibia has criticised new poverty eradication measures announced by President Hage Geingob during last week’s State of the Nation Address.
Geingob last week hinted government would consolidate and modify the ongoing food bank initiative, marginalised grant and feeding scheme, instead of introducing a basic income grant.
To this, the coalition’s activist Rinaani Musutua claimed the Head of State was still basing his poverty eradication measures and legacy on outdated welfare programmes.Musutua, in a statement on Friday, said Geingob’s poverty eradication measures are “irrelevant and have made very little impact to the current situation”.“The President’s […]
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